ANNIE TRITT PHOTOGRAPHY

editorial: bushwick

Bushwick, Brooklyn, once known for its crime and riots has become the new "hip" neighborhood and "affordable" place to buy ones' first home. It has gone from a largely German then Italian neighborhood to African American and now is currently largely Latino.

Latinos comprise at least 65 percent of Bushwick's 130,000 residents and the neighborhood retains much a feeling of the cultures it represents largely, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ecuadorian and Mexican. However, many Latinos are moving out of New York due to the raising rents in the area.

As neighborhoods change what was what is left behind is mostly forgotten. This is a look at the Bushwick I encountered as it is now.

   
Fixtures of the neighborhood, this store on Myrtle ave is now closed. The Man is Polo and woman is Diana. The store closed last year. Rumor is that Polo was in the hospital sick and that Diana went into rehab. People say she looks good now.
   
A member of the Black cowboys brings horses around on Saturdays. Children can pay a small fee and take a picture on the horse.
     
  
Maria Lopez of Puerto Rico wins a game of dominos near Maria Hernandez Park.
  
  
     
  
his restaurant is often the home of fights during the night. During the day you can get really good Central American food. Athough the woman in the foto (who asked that her name be withheld) has been in the US for 10 years she speaks no English.
   
Carlos Rendon,29, of Mexico, who came to the USA when he was 20, preys at St. Brigid’s Church during their Spanish language service. The service is always packed with as much as 700 people attending. Rendons wife still does not speak any English. Rendon learned some English during work at the cable company, but still lives most of his life in Spanish.
  
One of the many storefronts Pentecostal Latin Church's in Bushwick.This assistant preacher also gives street corner sermons on the weekends.
     
  
Walter's barber shop on Myrtle Ave. It is a base where many go to talk and catch up. It is solidly Puerto Rican and workers claim it to be the first shop in the neighborhood.
   
  
     
  
Walter's barber shop on Myrtle Ave. It is a base where many go to talk and catch up. It is solidly Puerto Rican and workers claim it to be the first shop in the neighborhood.
   
Julisa Garcia's father puts on her high-healed shoe symbolizing her ascension to adulthood during her sweet 16. Her family came to Brooklyn form the Dominican Republic.
   
Dominicans, the fastest growing group in NYC celebrates after the Dominican day Parade that took place in NYC. In bushwick people ride down Knickerbocker Ave waving flags and playing music in support.
     
  
This auto shop was next to an abandoned lot with a second one across the street. The lot was tuned recently into brand new apartments.
  
Gilbert Rodriguez works as a super in this apt in exchange for free rent. As people move out of the building re helps redo the apts and the rents are raised significantly as in a lot of bushwick.
  
Art work by Kelvin McCann "The Ghetto Picasso" in his basement, which he calls, The Found Objects Art Museum Temple of Devout Creativism. Mccann finds objects around the neighborhood and turns them into functional art.
     
  
One of the new luxury apts that are going up in Bushwick.
   
Pigeons of Gilbert Rodriquez he now has over 900. Pigeon rising is a trade in learned in Puerto Rico from his father and brought to the USA with him. Many people in the neighborhood raise Pigeons and try to catch each other's in sport.